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AC/DC Keeps the Power On

AC/DC, love them or hate them, is a priceless lesson that when life squirts unimaginably tragic lemonade in your eyes, the fortitude to believe in your music/art can help you mend from the heartache of a tragedy. It can also lead to something awesome. No hairs will be split about who the better singer was, Bon Scott or Brian Johnson; it’s a masturbatory and childish argument because this is about what AC/DC accomplished that no other band in the history of rock n roll has.

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Lucia Cifarelli
Music/Sound

Lucia Cifarelli “Lights Out” Review

As someone who has written two screenplays based on school shootings (both rejected for being too sad, uh, no shit, life isn’t a Hallmark movie) and the horrific impact they have on the victims, I was thunderstruck when I listened to Lucia Cifarelli’s “Lights Out”. It is a melancholy industrial rock track that wrestles with and calls attention to the epidemic of school gun violence that’s plagued the US since Columbine. Story-driven and minimalist by design,“Lights Out’s” hamster wheel musical arrangement feeds right into LC’s hypnotic voice, punctuating the cyclical (and sick) nature of these terror attacks.

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